A line from Cicero in the 2023 film 'The Holdovers' piqued my interest over Christmas and I was reminded of the need to continuously reassert certain values in a chaotic world, taking inspiration from the great John Hume's 'single transferable speech'
Category: Literature
Cheating students & embarrassed newspapers: A bad month for ‘AI’ abuse
Shouldn't cavalier abuse of 'AI' tools inspire some sort of revulsion and punishment? A clash of values is playing out, where genuine intelligence, human experience, artisanship and hard work is set against hollow facsimile and outright charlatanry. What do we want to win?
Scary accents, outsiders & why you should watch The Bear
How the northern accent is scary to the people in the south of Ireland and why you should waste no time and start watching The Bear

